Building Better PowerShell Code: Applying Proven Practices One Tip at a Time

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12. Don’t Skimp on Security

Adam Bertram¹  

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Evansville, IN, USA

 

As developers and system administrators come together to form DevOps, it’s important to not exclude security. Security is an extremely important topic especially in today’s day and age and is one that we can begin to include in our everyday PowerShell code.

Injecting security in PowerShell code is a deep topic and one that could not be completed in a single chapter let alone a single book. But, in this chapter, you’ll learn some tips to take care of some of the low-hanging fruit easily obtained by using some best practices.

Sign Scripts

PowerShell has a built-in method to cryptographically ...